Green Thumbs

[David Mary]

I have never been much of a gardener, but I love to live vicariously . Let's see your gardening endeavors big or small, and of course the knives you use therein, whether made by me, or someone else. Thanks!

 

[woodysone]

This year was better than last, warm in the spring then the heat wave hit and the plants didn’t set fruit, but that’s the fun of gardening .

https://imgur.com/a/gmqBUel

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https://imgur.com/jkfltbz

 

[David Mary]

What's that knife ya got there Martin?

 

[awmp]

My wife is wanting to start gardening, but I'm not much of a green thumb, but a relative has told her about "bucket" gardening, so we will see.

 

[Swp321]

These are a few mixed pics with some of the plants I have around and the garden I had. Some are bonsais and I’ve got about 20 Japanese maples at my house. It’s something very therapeutic to me that I picked back up when I got sober. I missed it so much.

https://imgur.com/a/zGEVDZe

 

[woodysone]

What's that knife ya got there Martin?

It was this David the hook really comes in handy

https://imgur.com/a/9faViPW

 

[oldmanwilly]

I've put nearly 6 months into these Thai chiles and finally have 5 poking through. There might be a 6th. Only time will tell.



They'd better be spicy.

 

[woodysone]

I've put nearly 6 months into these Thai chiles and finally have 5 poking through. There might be a 6th. Only time will tell.

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They'd better be spicy.

Are you able to over winter those where you live? Six months to get five there‘s always next year

 

[oldmanwilly]

Are you able to over winter those where you live? Six months to get five there‘s always next year

Yes, they're in a terra cotta pot so I should be able to just stick them inside. The only problem is whether or not my wife will approve.

 

[jbmonkey]

some of my pineapples from this summers crop and Buck 110 I had with me to cut them loose. all my David Mary knives other than a couple daggers are big knives.....but I'll use one to chop down my sugar cane end of next month or so or before end of the year and a freeze comes along....if one does.....hopefully not...I dislike the cold.

 

[David Mary]

Let me get this straight Mr. Monkey: You can grow pineapples, and yet it gets "cold" there. Something seems off.

 

[Danny Linguini]

70°F to people who live where pineapples grow is considered cold.

 

[BlindMouse2of3]

70°F to people who live where pineapples grow is considered cold.

At 70 I'll leave the house in shorts and a t shirt. Complaining about the heat

 

[BlindMouse2of3]

Our strawberries and raspberries did well this year. I'll try and get a picture of what's left tomorrow

 

[jlauffer]

some of my pineapples from this summers crop and Buck 110 I had with me to cut them loose. all my David Mary knives other than a couple daggers are big knives.....but I'll use one to chop down my sugar cane end of next month or so or before end of the year and a freeze comes along....if one does.....hopefully not...I dislike the cold.

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Good thing it's Magnacut, otherwise way too obsolete for work like that!

 

[David Mary]

To be fair, when I visited Florida in January of 2012, I thought I was going to melt.

 

[jbmonkey]

Let me get this straight Mr. Monkey: You can grow pineapples, and yet it gets "cold" there. Something seems off.

sometimes in the winter we get a overnight freeze meaning what it is literally 32f / 0c. cane has to be cut down and harvested before a freeze. sometimes cane is ready end of October sometimes December. it rarely gets that cold even for a night here, but has happened before. although doesn't matter as this morning I saw those pesky raccoons pulled all my stalks down. so most of the crop is ruined for this year. it's gonna be "seed" now for next year's crop. I'll bury it this weekend for next year.


below 28f /-2.2c can kill pineapple plants. we had it that cold last winter for a night and killed my green pepper plants and a handful of my pineapple plants. unlike up there with entire winters far below those numbers we get a night or two sometimes that cold over a winter.

 

[David Mary]

raccoons pulled all my stalks down

Pesky trash panda bandits!

 

[jbmonkey]

Pesky trash panda bandits!

they are the worst. bears stink too, as they eat every pineapple in one sitting. least they aren't wasteful. they eat everything but the top and skin. raccoons take a few bites and leave it.

bears....


racoons....


just cause were talking crop stuff....
sugar cane...


and one of green pepper plants that got killed off from the freeze

 

[BlindMouse2of3]

Are raccoons open to... eliminate as a pest?